ISBN:
9780231511711
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 450 pages)
Edition:
2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in international and global history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als McKeown, Adam Melancholy order
DDC:
325/.25
Keywords:
Passports
;
Asien
;
Migration
;
Grenze
;
Geschichte 1840-1940
;
Electronic books
;
Bibliografie
;
Electronic books
;
Bibliografie
;
Geschichte 1840-1940
;
Geschichte 1840-1940
;
Asien
;
Migration
;
Globalisierung
;
Grenze
Abstract:
A careful look at the processes of globalization over the past two hundred years reveals that the practices and ideologies of global interaction rose in conjunction with the global consolidation of a system of nation states and borders. The global standardization of migration control and identity documentation (e.g., passports and visas) is a concrete example of this globalization of borders, designed to both facilitate and limit movement.This book argues many of the standard principles and techniques of global migration and identity regulation were developed from 1880 to 1910 through the con
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Globalization of Identities; Part I: Borders in Transformation; 1. Consolidating Identities, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; 2. Global Migration, 1840-1940; 3. Creating the Free Migrant; 4. Nationalization of Migration Control; Part II: Imagining Borders; 5. Experiments in Border Control, 1852-1887; 6. Civilization and Borders, 1885-1895; 7. The "Natal Formula" and the Decline of the Imperial Subject, 1888-1913; Part III: Enforcing Borders; 8. Experiments in Remote Control, 1897-1905
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The American Formula, 1905-191310. Files and Fraud; Part IV: Disseminating Borders; 11. Moralizing Regulation; 12. Borders Across the World, 1907-1939; Conclusion: A Melancholy Order; Primary Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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